Ajay Bhandari Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, IN

Worldwide, OO

Leading engineering practice for software platforms & integration services across iPaaS and cloud platforms. Managing partnership & alliances, capability development, go-to market, advise-build-operate solutions with customers, manage people & business.

Dubai, AE

• Founded the early-stage web3 startup to transform ad-infrastructure using web3 and blockchain constructs providing leadership and direction to product and engineering team while focusing on product and tech strategy to.
• Partnered with CEO to lead product development and launch of ad manager and decentralized ad-network on Polygon within 6 months of incorporation.
• Hired and managed a team of 30 engineers, designers and product managers overseeing all aspects of product development and delivery. Established a culture of performance and accountability by coaching managers and team.
• Wrote and published whitepaper on product vision, technical strategy, design, roadmap while working as hands-on blockchain architect to bridge skills gaps during the initial period.
• Actively engaged with VCs, angel investors to sell them on the product vision, resulting in pre-seed funding, as well as partnerships with web3 platform players like Polygon, Decentraland and others.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Led mobility product transformation to SaaS platform, working with cross-functional leaders to define technical strategy for product value and effectiveness. Built, developed and led a team of 50+ responsible for the.
• Championed development of market making SaaS platform and white-label apps: Redesigned legacy backend infrastructure & mobile/web applications that had 50K active users to separate microservice infrastructure while.
• Directed R&D teams through the ground-up development of new products, including identifying and writing algorithms, machine learning models, backend APIs and guiding product marketing efforts.
• Setup engineering culture for agility and ownership using agile development methodologies and practices such as DevOps, ML Ops, feature flags, A/B tests etc.
• Infused flexibility, scalability and cost-efficiency by leading fully cloud-native development and deployment strategy.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Lead cloud transformative projects for Reliance, ICICI Group and HDFC using Google Cloud platform while interfacing with Google engineering, partners and customer stakeholders resulting in substantial revenue growth.
• Increased new work sold by 40% by leading the design & development of new IP offerings for product recommendations, supply chain & logistics optimization, call center intelligence with local language chatbots built.
• Introduced cloud native and serverless culture at customer organizations to streamline and enhance development processes; transitioned to lean, cost effective cloud development practices, using Anthos, Kubernetes.
• Accelerated product and solution development on GCP for customers, from quarters to weeks, by creating a strong engineering base with boutique partner firms and Google engineering teams.
• Built technical architecture blueprints and prototypes on hybrid workloads using Kubernetes, Anthos, Apigee, Dataflow, Pubsub, Big query and AI/ML services resulting in various app modernization, data migration and new.

Redmond, Washington, US

• In the Chief Architect role, I was responsible for providing technical sponsorship on high impact key strategic engagements throughout the globe across Azure product engineering, delivery & support and at times leading.
• Lead design & development of numerous Connected Vehicles & Mobility ecosystems and platforms for Global Automakers managing product engineering teams from Microsoft & customer. This includes connected vehicle platform.
• Drove product research & capability building in emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and Advance Analytics. Design & developed IoT and Machine Learning workshops to help train 400+ engineers on IoT.
• Design specific community activities, Microsoft Academy for College Hires (MACH) and internship programs and community outreach with colleges.
• Setup Architecture Review Board and helped defined processes, guidance and technical framework for Technical Quality Assurance assessment and evaluation for cloud-scale and IoT-scale products

Redmond, Washington, US

Key Profile: Covering all aspects of the solution cycle from opportunity development to development and operations while working with product engineering and delivery teams. Part of the CTO organization driving innovation programs in collaboration with engineering and delivery organizations.Steering key solutions / proposals to ensure competitiveness while.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Product manager and technical lead for suite of products and libraries on Microsoft platform with specific focus on far east market

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Sciences, Physics

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